Field Marshall Axurhotep was in the meeting hall with fifty his generals and the two leaders of local shinobi that had joined the Imperial cause. As befitted his rank he sat at the head of the conference table. He was less than enthusiastic about the new development in his efforts to bring civilization to the area. The captured spy under the influence of Terreks power of domination had told them everything about Madara Uchiha, his intangibility powers, immortality, moon eye plan and an army of around one hundred humanoid plant men able to travel underground and shape shift into copies of the people they fight who could in all likely hood fool all the sensors he had just had the snow and artisan ninja create.

"This army that Madara Uchiha has created is larger than the six top military powers on this continent combined." General Tyran said. "We must shift our resources to its immediate destruction."

"If we do that we will leave ourselves vulnerable to attack by the various other military powers," General Sheld said. "They all see us as a threat the only thing stopping them from attacking us now is our vastly superior numbers and our weapons and tactics are so alien that they are in a state of confusion. This status will not last long we should finish them off then move onto Madara's forces."

"The current plan could easily be adapted to take out both groups expanding from five strikes on the great ninja villages to six strikes on these targets could work." General Tak said.

"We are not the air guard," Axurhotep said. "We don't have enough resources to saturation bomb six targets at once for the period of time we were planning. Madara has placed all his eggs in one basket."

"With all due respect sir how do you suggest we smash the basket?" General Tyran asked.

"Nuke it," Axurhotep said. The entire conference room fell deathly silent. The two ninja were shocked by the response the generals had to such a simple statement.

What the hell is a nuke that they stopped talking just from hearing it mentioned? Harada thought.

A single general stood up, Harada noticed that while the other ones at the conference had four brass stars on their shoulders and Axurhotep had five this one only had two.

Why did they all fall silent for someone of lower rank? Harada wondered.

"The area where Madara has located his zetsu army and the container with his tailed beasts has no major ground water feeds to other areas, the fact that it is underground will contain the majority of the fallout and prevailing winds will carry the remaining of fallout into a handful of agricultural villages in The Land of Thunder." The low ranking general said. "The Hazard Environment Combat Division can secure the contaminated area."

"Deploying your division won't be necessary," Axurhotep said. "At least not right away if we don't advertise the people of the Land of Thunder will think it's merely a plague. A few radiation meds and they will see us as hero's and be more receptive to us replacing the current aristocracy, We need mearly make sure that none of our troops eat any irradiated produce. Now that we know the impact I would like to hear your opinions before sending a nuclear armed bunker buster after Madara."

5 minutes later…

Madara Uchiha was in his secret underground base. He was surrounded by his white zetsu's and he was less than enthusiastic about the new development. Pain was dead and Zetsu was missing he had Kisame talking Itachi to kill this little Field Marshall who was disrupting all his plans. Suddenly he heard a crash above him, a large metal object shaped like a lemon with a box kite on the end had smashed through the ceiling of the cavern. Then there was a bright flash.